The Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination results were on Friday, January 20 released by Education CS Ezekiel Machogu.
CS Machogu who was speaking at the Kenya National Examination Council Offices in Nairobi revealed that a total of 881,416 candidates sat for the 2022 KCSE exam compared to 826, 807 in 2021, an increase of 6.60 percent.
Out of the 881,416 candidates, 443,644 (50.33 percent) were male while 437,772 (49.67 percent) were female.
The 2022 KCSE exam saw 17 subjects recording significant improvement as compared to 11 subjects in 2021.
Male students performed quite well compared to their female counterparts.
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The number of candidates who obtained an overall grade A was 1,146 a slight improvement from 1,138 in the 2021 KCSE.
According to CS Machogu, out of the 1,146 candidates who scored grade A, females were 271 candidates while males were 875 candidates. In the A minus grade, there were 1962 female candidates and 4,445 males.
The B + grade had 6,104 female candidates while male candidates were 9,578. The B plain grade had 13,520 females compared to 17,783 male candidates. In the B- grade, there were 21, 474 females while males were 27,245.
In the C+ category, female students were 33,138 while their male counterparts were 36,950.
The number of female students who scored below grade C+ was higher than that of the male students.
Grade C plain had 49,191 females and 45,963 males. In grade C- there were 62, 599 females and 56,469 males.
In the grade D+ category, there were 70,238 female students and 64,783 males. Grade D had 84,075 females and 83,683 males.
84,075 female students scored grade D- while 83,683 male students scored the same grade.
The number of students who scored grade E declined to 30,822 from 46,151 in 2021. There were 12,760 female and 18,062 male candidates.
CS Machogu also announced that 190 students with special needs scored grade C+ and above.
